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Ok, I have a dumb question that maybe someone can answer: What is the difference between a loft and a studio? I thought a loft was generally the top floor of a building, but here we have an entire building of lofts plus a penthouse on top. Aren't those just large studios? I'm going to start saying I live in a 'petite Soho-style loft' in East Greenwich Village.

I always said that I lived in a junior 1BR studio, which meant that I was fortunate enough to have a small walk-in closet.

Uh, as for your question. I looked up a definition on Wikipedia:

"A studio apartment, also known as a studio flat (UK), efficiency apartment or bachelor/bachelorette style apartment, is a self-contained, small apartment, which combines living room, bedroom and kitchenette into a single unit, barring a bathroom. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg also has a cloven hoof."

In NYC real estate, a loft generally refers to a space large enough to have a "lofted" space within the apartment. In other words, space to throw in a makeshift lofted bedroom with some rickety ladder leading up to it - or something nicer and not at all hipster. This specification requires ceilings of at least 13 feet, but usually higher. So "loft" actually refers more to the height of the ceilings than to the size of the apartment, which also implies a loft can have multiple bedrooms as well.

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